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12:35 AM ET, February 20, 2011

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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
iPad 3 with Retina display, new device sized between iPad and iPod in Apple's pipeline  —  While conflicting rumors have described both a larger screen and a smaller, cheaper iPhone model purportedly planned for this summer, one connected industry expert tells AppleInsider that Apple …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
New high-speed connection tech due from Apple  —  An announcement from Apple is expected soon about a new high-speed connection technology, a source told CNET.  —  Whether the new connector tech will be part of the upcoming MacBook Pro update (rumored to happen February 24) or announced in another context is not clear.
Discussion: MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, TUAW and TiPb
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple in the Sky with Diamonds: A Cloud Based Safe Deposit Box  —  With OS X nearing its launch this summer, we just might have gotten a glimpse at either a Time Machine or MobileMe upgrade in one of this week's patents.  Apple wants to beef up sensitive document security for average consumers …
Horace Dediu / asymco:
The lives and deaths of mobile platforms  —  When Stephen Elop said that Nokia and Microsoft sought to create a “three horse race” he implied that there were only two viable mobile ecosystems today.  With that statement he sought to deprecate or declare “end of life” two platforms …
Discussion: @jason
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
Paul Miller And The Five Rules Of Stunt Resignation  —  On Friday afternoon, Paul J. Miller caused what passes for a kerfuffle inside the technology journalism meta-bubble.  —  Miller, as you know, is “Senior Associate Editor” at our estranged sister site Engadget - or at least …
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Warpafx / BuzzFeed:
Westboro Church to Anonymous: Bring It, Cowards  —  Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of Westboro Baptists Church founder Fred Phelps, responded on Twitter to the Anonymous threat.
Discussion: @meganphelps
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Michael Stone / Examiner:
Anonymous delivers ultimatum to Westboro Baptist Church  —  Anonymous, a notorious collective of unnamed Internet activists, has put the Westboro Baptist Church on notice.  Tuesday, the group Anonymous released an open letter to Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church (WBC).
Hannah Seligson / New York Times:
Jilted in the U.S., a Site Finds Love in India  —  IN 2008, three young guys in Manhattan started Ignighter.com, a dating Web site focused on twentysomethings.  They sought to set themselves apart by enabling members to set up group dates: One member, serving as a point person …
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Should Employers Be Allowed to Ask for Your Facebook Login?  —  The American Civil Liberties Union has taken up the cause of a Maryland man who was forced to cough up his Facebook password during a job interview with the Department of Corrections in that state.
Discussion: Blog of Rights and Slashdot
Fred / A VC:
Some Thoughts On Public and Private Markets  —  I had breakfast with Alan Patricof last week.  Alan is the dean of NYC VCs, he's been at this game longer than any of us.  He was in the business when Intel and Apple went public.  —  The breakfast came about when Alan wrote this blog post …
Discussion: Howard Lindzon
Ryan Spoon:
Techmeme Figuring Out the Blend of Real-Time & Published News.  —  I had the following post written and in the my blog's queue (which is how I usually write / blog).... and then something happened: Twitter and UberTwitter tussled.  —  And as it broke on Friday, there was a mixture of real-time commentary …
Discussion: broadstuff
Agence France Presse:
Nokia head swaps Microsoft shares for own firm: report  —  HELSINKI — Nokia chief executive and former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop, who has sealed a tie up deal with the US giant, this week swapped all of his Microsoft shares for Nokia stock, reports said Friday.
Discussion: Reuters and SAI
 
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Julie Bort / Network World:
Cerf: 2011 will be proving point for ‘InterPlanetary Internet’
Discussion: Popular Science and ITworld.com
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
More HBGary Federal Fallout: The Government Wants To Buy Software To Fake Online Grassroots Social Media Campaigns
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Judge Rules Against China; ‘Green Dam’ Suit Heads to Trial
Discussion: Slashdot, Thanks:markhachman
 Earlier Items: 
Tom Krazit / Relevant Results:
Krazit says, ‘So long, CNET’
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat:
What President Obama's Web-hipster beer hoax tells us
Discussion: The Feast
Quora:
Why did Twitter suspend UberTwitter?